Open Society Initiative for Europe (

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European Elections 2014 Project

The European Elections 2014 is a flagship project of the Open Society Initiative for Europe (OSIFE) that views European elections in 2014

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 including national and local elections in key countries such as France, Hungary and the Netherlands

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 as a pivotal moment that can either rejuvenate or seriously harm European democracy, a test of the depth of the gap between governments and citizens on European integration. The European Parliamentary elections in May 2014 present a crucial opportunity for citizens and civil society actors to help influence and

shape the agenda of the European Union in the EU’s legislative period 2015

-2019. OSIFE identified three main aims: 1) to support projects that amplify the voice and demands of constituencies that are far from the centers of power, 2) to fight all types of hate speech, and 3) to mobilize voters to take part in this rare political moment of transnational democracy. This document lists all the elections-related grants that OSIFE is supporting through the European Elections 2014 project (open call grants, targeted mobilization efforts, up-scaling grants and grants related to post-election actions), the Hungary project, the Italy project and the Open Society Fund to Counter Xenophobia, as well as election grants from the At Home in Europe and European Civil Liberties projects. Finally, there is an election-related legacy grant from the Open Society Youth Initiative and a co-funded project of OSIFE with the OSF Information Program.

OSIFE European Elections 2014 Project

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 Grantees

Organization Project title Project countries Project description Project Term Contact person Awarded amount

 Acuerdo Radical Europe: The populist challenge EU-wide (spotlight on FR, HU, SK) The purpose of this grant is to create an interactive news-story as a snapshot of the current anti-European forces through a political-fiction experiment built with  journalistic elements: an imaginary state. This fictional country has three levels of representation

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 local, regional, and national level

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 all based on real examples of contemporary Europe, namely from France, Slovakia and Hungary. The aim is to show the reader how these forces behave once they come to power and do it through an interactive mosaic. 02/17/2014- 05/25/2014 Mr. Pedro García Campos pedro@acuer do.us USD 15,598.38  AEGEE-Europe Europe on Track  AT, BE, BG, CZ, DE, ES, FR, GR, HR, HU, IT, NL, PL, RO, and SK The purpose of th

is grant is to ensure that AEGEE’s already existing

, award winning (2013 Charlemagne Youth Prize) project

Europe on Track 

 will reach its full potential of motivating thousands of young Europeans to participate in the European Parliamentary elections 2014. More specifically, during one month  AEGEE sent two teams of volunteers travelling by train through 15 Member States to promote the European Parliament elections at universities and to provide students with relevant information, enabling them to make an informed choice. During these tours the volunteers engaged with people via street actions, flash mobs, panel discussions, workshops, interviews, information booths, and face to face meetings. The travel route included Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Italy, Spain, and France. 02/01/2014 - 10/01/2014 Mr. Luis  Alvarado president@aegee.org USD 32,268.00

 

Open Society Initiative for Europe (

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Organization Project title Project countries Project description Project Term Contact person Awarded amount

 ALTER-EU Towards a European Parliament Committed to Transparency and  Accountability all 28 EU Member States The purpose of this project was to implement a pan-European pledge campaign, aimed at engaging citizens in the election process by mobilizing them to directly contact MEP candidates standing for election. The campaign called on candidates to formally pledge to improve EU accountability by introducing robust lobby transparency rules and limiting undue influence once elected. Over 1100 candidate MEPs and over 40 elected MEPs from across Europe pledged to stand-up for citizens and democracy against excessive lobbying influence by signing the

‘Politics for People Not Profit’ campaign pledge.

 01/01/2014 - 12/31/2014 Ms. Nicola Freeman coordinator@alter-eu.org USD 150,000.00  ARCIGAY LGBT Mob-Watch Italy-Europe 2014 IT This project aims to mobilize, channel and amplify the voice and demands of LGBT Italian people and their sympathetic allies in the European Elections 2014, by constructing a permanent tool for monitoring, campaigning, mobilizing and lobbying in this and further elections. Arcigay aims to inform, mobilize, and channel the voice of LGBT voters

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 and those sympathetic to their cause

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 to reduce the distance between Italian and EU standards of LGBT protection by highlighting the positive role of EU in terms of human rights and LGBT rights. 12/01/2013 - 12/31/2014 Mr. Michele Breveglieri segretario@ar cigay.it USD 99,690.00  Associazione 21 luglio

Per i diritti, contro la  xenofobia

 - Campaign for rights, against xenophobia IT The objectives of the project are to bring human rights and fight to xenophobia and discrimination at the center of the debate for 2014 European elections and to let the voices and demands of Roma, Sinti, migrants and detained persons be heard in the debate for 2014 European elections. This project also aims to counter and reduce the xenophobic discourse during the election campaign and at the European Parliament. The project activities will include monitoring of media sources in order to detect discriminatory or inciting to race-hate behavior towards migrants and corrective actions and strategic litigation (where applicable), as well as a handbook aimed at raising t

he candidates’ awareness on human rights of

the above mentioned groups. 01/01/2014 - 07/01/2014 Mr. Paolo Stasolla segreteria@21luglio.org USD 49,782.00  Athena Institute  Analyzing and reporting the 2014 European elections and countering extremist and populist political voices in Hungary HU The project combining monitoring and advocacy to counter extremist tendencies and to strengthen the voice of civil society was carried out by the Budapest-based non-profit organization Athena Institute in partnership with EUrologus Online magazine. The monitoring and documentation track of the project was to systematically analyze and compare the programs, statements, and activities of Hungarian political parties and their fringe organizations throughout the elections campaign with EU

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s fundamental value. The public advocacy and communication track of the project builds on these monitoring results and aims to provide daily news coverage to the general public using online media platforms. 01/01/2014 - 08/31/2014 Mr. Kristof Domina k.domina@athenainstitute.eu USD 35,000.00

 

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Organization Project title Project countries Project description Project Term Contact person Awarded amount

 Athens Pride Vote for your rights GR This project was done in partnership with Colour Youth, an Athens based LGBTQ youth community organization. Their campaign addressed the issue of invisibility and marginalization of the LGBTQ community, one of the most socially excluded groups in Greek society. The project is a first step towards aligning civil liberties available to LGBTQ persons in Greece with those in the rest of EU by addressing the existing disparity and claiming equality for all. The activities proposed included a pre-election survey, which was used to better target their campaign, flash mobs, monitoring activities, and the lobbying of candidates. 12/09/2013 - 08/23/2014 Ms. Andrea Gilbert contact@athenspride.eu USD 26,000.00 Bite the Ballot Bite The Ballot - European elections 2014 UK This project's objective is to turn political apathy amongst young people into awareness about the need to vote, through a combination of face-to-face communications, supported by a through-the-line media and promotional campaign. The project aims to engage young people furthest away from politics to register to vote, by going into the most deprived schools around Britain to

introduce an interactive role play game called “The Basics”, with young people

delivering these sessions to one another. These sessions will be building up to National Voter Registration Day (February 5), when they will try to stimulate more than a third of a million young voters to register to vote. 11/01/2013- 08/31/2014 Ms. Mevan Babakar mevan@bitetheballot.co.uk USD 138,634.00 Bite the Ballot Web app version of

‘The Basics’

 UK

Bite the Ballot will develop a web app version of their ‘Show Me the Money’ game

. The intention is to make the game more accessible to young audiences and the use of the games in educational and community group settings. Providing the app in a web format will allow for multiple database synchronization, which will enable geo-specific information to be pulled in making the playing experience more relevant to each user. 04/01/2014 - 06/30/2014 Mr. Michael Sani mike@bitetheballot.co.uk USD 25,000.00 Bondy Blog

Pas de quartiers pour les clichés !

FR Created in 2005 during the urban riots in the suburbs, Bondy blog has become a

model and a symbol of “citizen journalism” in France. With the French l

ocal and European elections in the spring of 2014, the

project’s main aims encompass

improving the perception of people living in the suburbs, promoting new ideas and new political actions, supporting diversity, fighting all discriminations, developing collaboration between youth and well-known media, and giving suburban youth educational and technical resources to express themselves in writing, public speaking, as well as in front of the camera. 02/01/2014 - 06/30/2014 Mr. Adrien Chauvin bondyblog.fr@gmail.com USD 49,467.00 Budapesti Szociális Forrásközpont (

Regional Social Welfare Resource Center of Budapest

) Women's Shadow Cabinet in Hungary HU

The aim of the women’s shadow cabinet is to enhance women’s role in

democratic public life, including politics, and to mobilize women prior to Hungarian national and municipal elections as well as the European Parliament elections in 2014. This shadow cabinet should take a stand on issues concerning the country and offer their solutions to pending problems. They aspire to become a proactive factor in daily

politics, making an impact on current and future governments’ policies on women’s issues.

11/01/2013 - 10/01/2014 Ms. Zita Olah zita.olah@bszf.hu USD 49,515.00